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We present a scaling analysis of electronic and transport properties of metal-semiconducting carbon nanotube interfaces as a function of the nanotube length within the coherent transport regime, which takes fully into account atomic-scale electronic structure and three-dimensional electrostatics of the metal-nanotube interface using a real-space Green's function based self-consistent tight-binding theory. As the first example, we examine devices formed by attaching finite-size single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) to both high- and low- work function metallic electrodes through the dangling bonds at the end. We analyze the nature of Schottky barrier formation at the metal-nanotube interface by examining the electrostatics, the band lineup and the conductance of the metal-SWNT molecule-metal junction as a function of the SWNT molecule length and metal-SWNT coupling strength. We show that the confined cylindrical geometry and the atomistic nature of electronic processes across the metal-SWNT interface leads to a different physical picture of band alignment from that of the planar metal-semiconductor interface. We analyze the temperature and length dependence of the conductance of the S

Author

Xue, Yongqiang; Ratner, Mark A.

Published

2004

Language

EN